A chat with the stars of The Bodyguard coming to Blackpool

Blackpool Gazette

Take a look at our exclusive chat with the lead stars of the hit musical The Bodyguard coming to Blackpool next week.

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00:00Obviously I'm talking to you both because you're coming to Blackpool with The Bodyguard,

00:10so can I ask how you feel about taking it there?

00:13I think the most exciting thing about Blackpool for me, this is my first time really getting

00:19to the UK properly, because in the past you know you pop over for a weekend and maybe

00:24see a show in London and you go home and you're kind of in a whirlwind, I'm finally going

00:28to really get to get to know cities and I'm super, super excited because it's our first

00:33move.

00:34You know, we came to Birmingham to start, but this is our first time picking up the show

00:37and moving it to a new place.

00:38Yeah, look, I went to Blackpool for the first time last Christmas for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,

00:47so this is my second time, but this time it'll be, you know, hopefully warmer, even though

00:54the weather was actually really nice when I was up there.

00:58And yes, it's really, it's lovely.

01:00The Winter Gardens is a magnificent building for a start.

01:06The crowds were always really great in Blackpool, like we had an amazing experience there.

01:10There's a really nice cafe right on the water I can take you to.

01:13It's got a really good breakfast.

01:16Yeah.

01:17It's a really big city as well.

01:18Like it's, you can go up the Blackpool Tower and you'll see just how big it is.

01:22So it's one of those, it's a famous city in the UK and, you know, it was like the seaside

01:30town of the Victorians.

01:34So, yeah, there's the famous Blackpool Tower and there's a ballroom underneath it where

01:40people still go in the daytime and dance with each other and, yeah, and it was a home.

01:45It's like, it's a really historic place.

01:47So, you know, I found it really fascinating and I really am into that sort of stuff,

01:51like history and stuff like that.

01:52So, you know, it's like going back to Blackpool.

01:55So what can the people of Blackpool expect from the bodyguard?

01:58Oh, well, the thing about the bodyguard is that it's kind of got a little bit of something

02:07for everybody.

02:08It is thrilling.

02:09I mean, I would describe it as a musical thriller, but it's high energy, incredible dancing.

02:16It's highly romantic.

02:18It's just everything for everyone.

02:21It's not a strange musical, but it is because it's not traditional in any sense.

02:27It's not a jukebox musical.

02:29It's not, uh, it is romantic, but it's also a thriller and a mystery.

02:34It's quite, got quite a lot of danger.

02:36Um, it's, it's relatively adult in its sensibilities.

02:41Um, and it's got phenomenal music and, uh, Sidani failed to mention as well as the amazing

02:49dancers.

02:49It's got ridiculous singing of which I, I do none of.

02:55I do sing.

02:57It's not in the same league.

02:59Somewhat deliberately.

03:01Um, definitely deliberately.

03:05Well, I don't know.

03:05I've, I've seemed to have found a talent.

03:08I think I've really hit my mark with tuneless singing.

03:12And, uh, I'm going to go with it.

03:15I'm going to go, I'm going to become the new Rex Harrison.

03:16I'm just going to speak everything.

03:19Well, like to the music, it's just phenomenally written.

03:24It's just good music.

03:25It's stood the test of time and to revisit it in the context of the piece.

03:30It's just so nice because, you know, there's still radio hits all these years later, but

03:33they apply so well to the scenic work that it's almost unbelievable.

03:39Um, it feels like every night I'll hit another lyric that I think, oh, I didn't,

03:43I actually didn't feel the depth of hell.

03:44This really, really rings true and where we are in the story.

03:47And so that's something really wonderful to experience.

03:49If you already know the songs, to listen to the songs and the texts anew and just see how

03:55alive they are in the situations.

03:57If people in Blackpool haven't bought tickets yet to see The Bodyguard, why should they?

04:02I don't like to make promises, but I'm going to do it anyway.

04:05It's going to be an unforgettable evening.

04:08Truly is.

04:09And we're only there for four or five days.

04:11So just get there, just get there.

04:13It's hard to describe it.

04:16You just have to experience it.

04:17It's an amazing evening.

04:20Yeah.

04:20I mean, I think, I think it's only five shows.

04:22So it's like doing a, like a concert stint in a, in a city.

04:27And I mean, the, you'll see it when you, obviously when we get there, but the Winter Gardens is,

04:33it's big.

04:35It's a really big place.

04:37It takes a lot, you know, and if it's, if it's full, that place will, you know, this music will

04:42fill that place in itself.

04:43You know, it's, it's a really spectacular show.

04:47Um, so yeah, I think, I think audience will love it.

04:56Bye-bye.

04:57Bye-bye.

05:01Bye-bye.

05:06Bye.

05:11Bye-bye.

05:20Bye.

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